quinter

See also: Quinter

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.tɛʁ/

Adverb

quinter

1. a fifth time

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̃.te/

Verb

quinter

1. (archaic, agriculture) to plough the field five times
2. (rare) to have a coughing fit

Conjugation

Conjugation of quinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	quinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	quintant /kɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		quinté /kɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	quinte /kɛ̃t/	quintes /kɛ̃t/	quinte /kɛ̃t/	quintons /kɛ̃.tɔ̃/	quintez /kɛ̃.te/	quintent /kɛ̃t/
	imperfect	quintais /kɛ̃.tɛ/	quintais /kɛ̃.tɛ/	quintait /kɛ̃.tɛ/	quintions /kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	quintiez /kɛ̃.tje/	quintaient /kɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	quintai /kɛ̃.te/	quintas /kɛ̃.ta/	quinta /kɛ̃.ta/	quintâmes /kɛ̃.tam/	quintâtes /kɛ̃.tat/	quintèrent /kɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	quinterai /kɛ̃.tʁe/	quinteras /kɛ̃.tʁa/	quintera /kɛ̃.tʁa/	quinterons /kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	quinterez /kɛ̃.tʁe/	quinteront /kɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	quinterais /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/	quinterais /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/	quinterait /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/	quinterions /kɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	quinteriez /kɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	quinteraient /kɛ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	quinte /kɛ̃t/	quintes /kɛ̃t/	quinte /kɛ̃t/	quintions /kɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	quintiez /kɛ̃.tje/	quintent /kɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	quintasse /kɛ̃.tas/	quintasses /kɛ̃.tas/	quintât /kɛ̃.ta/	quintassions /kɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	quintassiez /kɛ̃.ta.sje/	quintassent /kɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	quinte /kɛ̃t/	—	quintons /kɛ̃.tɔ̃/	quintez /kɛ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• quint
• quinte